Sorry, might be a stupid question, I have literally no idea about bikes!
What I鈥檓 looking to do is figure out whether there are any modern-ish ebike motors on the market that I could swap my current motor with (I鈥檓 assuming I鈥檇 be swapping all the other innards to fit that motor too, so dw about battery compatibility and the like). All I know about the current Motor is that it鈥檚 a 250W Panasonic motor from around 2011. I asked the mechanic at my bike shop whether I could just toss one of those Bafang conversion kits on the bike but he said the way that my pedals sit within the motor would be incompatible with that and I鈥檇 need to get an actual ebike motor, not a conversion motor.
So now I鈥檓 trying to find information on current Panasonic motors and what sort of frames they need to fit, but I鈥檓 having a hard time because I have no idea how to even call this kind of spacing on the frame. Does anyone have an idea on what to call it/describe it as? Or is is a proprietary thing that I鈥檇 need a welder to rework? (Totally an option if push comes to shove, I know a guy)
Some more pictures from as many angles as I could get into (should I be getting measurements of any of these?):
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